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...missed opportunity: "For despite the recent box-office disappointment, Sam Spiegel believed that Marlon would be an ideal Lawrence of Arabia, made his an offer, and sent him Robert Bolt's vivid scenario. To Peter O'Toole's undying gratitude, Marlon responded: 'I'll be damned if I'll spend two years of my life out in the desert on some f-----g camel...
...James Bond theme song has two purposes - to lead the marketing charge that drives you to the box office and to be a sonic backdrop while nude women dance in silhouette over the opening credits. This may explain why the Bond songbook is not overstuffed with examples of subtlety. (See TIME's list of the 10 best Bond girls...
...rests on another shaky pillar--the idea that people should get their values from what they see on television. This goes for entertainers and Presidents. Obama can't do the work of the family. It's not his job to buy your kid a belt or teach him to box. His job is to monitor this nation's nuclear arsenal, not your daughter's iPod...
...comfortable at home either. Harvard’s longest home winning streak was three games last season, but its success at home was also punctuated by several home losing streaks. Although its offense was decent, its defense left much to be improved, failing to make some key stops and box-outs in close games.“When you’re on the road, the two things you really need to do are play defense and box out,” Harris says. “We didn’t do a good job at that. I don?...
...alerted to a possible community of homosexual students on campus, he called a secret court to investigate the claims. The proceedings were so covert that the Administrative Board was unaware of the trial until after it occurred. The court files from the committee sat in an unopened box in archives until 2002. Van Devere documents the story of these marginalized men, but he is not seeking to focus criticism on Harvard specifically. “This is not a denouncement of the University or the administration at all. In many ways what occurred on campus is representative of an entire...